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The main geographic feature of Meigs County is the Tennessee River, which forms the county's western boundary. Watts Bar Dam is located along the river between Meigs and adjacent Rhea County. Above it is the manmade Watts Bar Lake , which spans the river upstream to Fort Loudoun Dam just west of Knoxville .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]
Elisha Sharp was a large landowner and one of six original county commissioners of Meigs County. [4] In 1836, Sharp served as a second lieutenant within the first division of the East Tennessee guard under Brigadier General John E. Wool. Assembled to battle against the Cherokee Nation, the units were sent home in November 1836, since some sort ...
The Meigs County Historical Museum is located on Smith Avenue in Decatur, Tennessee and is owned and operated by the Meigs County Historical Society. [1] The groundbreaking for this new site was in July 2002. [2] [3] [4] The museum houses many county court and family records. On permanent display is a mural depicting Main Street in Decatur in ...
A grandson, Return J. Meigs IV, married Jennie Ross, daughter of principal Cherokee chief John Ross. They emigrated with her father to Indian Territory in 1838, forced out on the Trail of Tears. [10] Two Tennessee place names honor Meigs: Meigs County, which was formed in 1836 from part of Rhea County, and Meigs Mountain in the Great Smoky ...
Location of Meigs County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meigs County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meigs County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Mount Zion Church is a historic church in Mt. Zion Hollow in Decatur, Tennessee, United States.. It is a rectangular frame building that was built in 1850. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as the "best preserved" and "least altered" of the simple rural church structures found in a survey of historic buildings in Meigs County.
McKenzie Windmill is a historic windmill on Tennessee State Route 58 in Georgetown, Tennessee. The windmill was built in 1931 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [ 1 ] At the time of its listing, it was the only windmill in Meigs County .